Most people are much better served working for a company and punching the 9-to-5 clock--especially since startups nowadays rarely give contributors sufficient stock to make the risks worthwhile.
I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015)
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#12F me — I didn’t need to read this tonight. My ‘sewer pipe’ feels light years in length, and I’m in a row boat. Much love to all those burning the candle at both ends with a blowtorch, may you make it out alive
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#15> Knowing nothing about software. A few lines in: > I created a horse-racing simulation game in Applesoft BASIC in Manhattan Beach Middle School’s computer classroom and ran a small gambling operation. ... Ok.
Disingenuous title? Well yeah. The author does sales.
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#16It's not clear what this person actually did. It sounds like it's his employees/partners did all the work.
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#17F me — I didn’t need to read this tonight. My ‘sewer pipe’ feels light years in length, and I’m in a row boat. Much love to all those burning the candle at both ends with a blowtorch, may you make it out alive
Yeah, articles like these read as psychopath porn to me. Not interested in subjecting myself to any of this on my own time.
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#20Sounds like he is a solid sales person. That stuff is worth a lot ... probably more than knowing a lot about software ... even in a software business.